Lake District Hotels exceeded their annual fundraising, with a grand total of £11,426.27

Throughout 2017, a family-run hotel group in the Lake District have been busy hosting a variety of charity events. They hoped to beat their annual fundraising total of £8,276.63, which they raised the previous year for Amy’s Care - a community interest group which provides specialist care for people living with dementia.

At the end of 2016, they asked the public to nominate their favourite charity to become the hotel group charity of the year. With over 600 entries, Blood Bikes Cumbria were selected after receiving most of the votes. Blood Bikes Cumbria provides out-of-hours transport, 365 days of the year to transport urgently needed blood, drugs and other medical requirements between hospitals.

Since then, Lake District Hotels have held numerous charitable activities and events. Sales Manager from the Skiddaw Hotel, Maria Quigley, ran the London Marathon, General Manager at the Kings Arms Hotel, Garry Price, donated sales from his exclusive 50th birthday ale, raffle tickets were sold offering two lucky winners the chance to enjoy seven nights of delicious culinary delights across the seven hotels. General Manager Gary Wilson and his team at the Inn on the Lake, raised an outstanding £6,137 from their ‘Kitchen Rivals’ charity banquet, this along with fashion show raffles and other challenges raised a grand total of £11,426.27.

Dani Hope, Marketing Director for Lake District Hotels commented: “It’s been a tremendous year working with Blood Bikes Cumbria and raising such an amazing amount of money.

“It’s a real pleasure to be able to help such a deserving cause, a lot of hard work and effort has gone in from everyone involved.”

Rider and Liaison Officer for Blood Bikes Cumbria, Rod Wickham commented: “First and foremost, I would like to say a huge thank you to the Lake District Hotels Group for selecting Blood Bikes Cumbria as their Charity of the Year 2017.

“I was speechless to learn about the amount of money raised during the year by the hard work of Leah Davies and the hotel staff and I thank you all very much.

“The Blood Bikes Committee will be discussing how to put the money to good use by helping to bring our fleet of vehicles up-to-date, with either the purchase of a motorbike or car.”